Sorry for you. The Open Source door is wide open.
The flashing red pixels on the screen, seen when visiting the personal website, are a hint of what's known. The knowledge gained in a previous job is valuable to the rest of the world.
Readit Newsdaqhris commented on OpenAI is building a social network? theverge.com/openai/64813... · Posted by u/noleary
> Social networks tend to reflect the character of their founders.
I would say "owners" rather than "founders", but I agree with you. I think Sam Altman's couldn't be worse than Elon Musk's X, no?
Both are founders of a so-called non-profit and are suing each other. Their legal arguments are public at this point. By reading them, one may understand that it's hard to choose between 'yes' and 'no' as an answer. Maybe, we could request and take into account the opinion of what they 'created' that might outlast them and their conflict, namely AI.
Very interesting and disturbing research, definitely a wake up call for me. Does anyone know/can anyone recommend me software that can block these sorts of requests from going through? I know of pihole which blocks adds but does it also filter out these sorts of things?
"no-root firewalls" to control data flows on devices (sorry for not publicly naming my preferred one).
The Problem With Counterfeit People (May 31, 2023)
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2023/05/probl...
I bet the author, Boris The Brave, could find a relatable account of future events in the writings of Daniel C. Dennett.
daqhris commented on Aegis v3.0 – a free, secure and open source 2FA app for Android github.com/beemdevelopmen... · Posted by u/microflash
I'm a veteran developer, but really more of a "normal" than the type of developer who is commenting on this story. I admit I find this stuff really, really, really confusing. I hate dealing with any of this stuff, I don't do it voluntarily for the same reasons I don't (for example) use pretty good privacy for email (I just use web gmail like a regular person).
Anyway, I do (involuntarily) use 2FA for two services, and managed to set myself up with Google Authenticator on my Android phone. Both services that onboarded me for this explained it really poorly, but at least got me hooked up and I now routinely (and reluctantly) login to those services this way. Reading this I suddenly realised, whoaaa, if I lose my phone do I lose access to those (important) services? Well no, I hope not at least, when I look at the Authenticator app it has the green "your codes are being saved to your google account" cloud icon. That's kind of reassuring. I suppose.
I'm not really sure what my point is, other than online security is an ever more important issue, it's a swamp and even many technical people who might know everything there is to know about some arcane corner of the technology universe don't necessarily properly understand it. Although I suspect most would not be prepared to admit it like I just did. Actual normal people (like my wife for example) have absolutely no chance of getting on top of the details and navigating their way to a best practice solution. I hope Google (or Apple) don't either give up on this or go full evil, that would be really bad.
I think I will check out whether my two services can give me recovery codes. I am confident I can manage vital username/password combinations and recovery codes, that's the level of sophistication (or not) I'm comfortable with in this space.
The current state of technology seems frightening indeed. This 2FA is a miracle. It is free and independent of the big tech companies. I'd put it on the same level of importance as Mozilla products. In the future, we will see more proof-of-personality applications for security reasons. But recovery codes won't be going out of fashion any time soon. Unless, of course, AI-enabled developers are gifted with long-term memory in the next few years.
daqhris commented on What it was like working for Gitlab yorickpeterse.com/article... · Posted by u/aragilar
Gitlabs birthplace is the Netherlands actually, but they wouldn't be Dutch if they let that get in the way of profit making ;)
The Dutch and their history of sailing boats over the ocean... In these modern times, I believe it's about planting a flag on the land of the Vatican/Mecca of the digital tech industry.
I'd bet that GitLab, as an entity or corporation, felt mission-driven and empowered by settling not far from GitHub.
daqhris commented on What it was like working for Gitlab yorickpeterse.com/article... · Posted by u/aragilar
> The author has a poor understanding of economics.
Does he or does the company? If they had decent understanding of economics, they should have shut down their Bay Area operations?
The Bay Area is probably their birthplace, best talent pool and main source of funding.
Similarly, as it's the case in global governance, almost all nations have an office in New York, from where they are able to talk to each other and make use of their seat around the table at the United Nations.
daqhris commented on Tell HN: GitHub is blocking search unless you are logged in · Posted by u/nancyp
That's an official "feature": https://docs.github.com/en/code-security/secret-scanning/abo...
thank you for the enlightment. now it all makes sense in my mind.
daqhris commented on Tell HN: GitHub is blocking search unless you are logged in · Posted by u/nancyp
Most likely anti-scraping measure. So they can detect and shut down bots or really anyone they feel like if activity looks nonstandard. Not suggesting it’s good, but it’s consistent with the in vogue trend to lock down recipient public APIs nowadays.
As an illustration, near the end of last year, bots from a renowned Email API provider spotted in less than 1 hour the leak of a public key from my public GitHub code repo. My account got suspended on their platform. It was stunning to see the speed at which they acted and automated the process to "lose" and "recover" reputation.
3 Problems with that assumption:
a) Unlike living things, that information doesn't allow them to change. When a human touches a hotplate for the first time, it will (in addition to probably yelling and cursing a lot), learn that hotplates are dangerous and change its internal state to reflect that.
What we currently see as "AI" doesn't do that. Information gathered through means such as websearch + RAG, has ZERO impact on the systems internal makeup.
b) The "AI" doesn't collect the information. The model doesn't collect anything, and in fact can't. It can produce some sequence that may or may not cause some external entity to feed it back some more data (e.g. a websearch, databases, etc.). That is an advantage for technical applications, because it means we can easily marry an LLM to every system imaginable, but its really bad for the prospect of an AGI, that is supposed to be "autonomous".
c) The representation of the information has nothing to do with what it represents. All information an LLM works with, including whatever it is eing fed from th outside, is represented PURELY AND ONLY in terms of statistical relationships between the tokens in the message. There is no world-model, there is no understanding of information. There is mimicry of these things, to the point where they are technically useful and entice humans to anthropomorphise them (a BIIIG chunk of VC money hinges on that), but no actual understanding...and as soon as a model is left to its own devices, which would be a requirement for an AGI (remember: Autonomous), that becomes a problem.
Your assertions also make some sense, especially on a technical level. I'd add only that human minds are no longer the only minds utilizing digital tools. There is almost no protective gears or powerful barrier that would likely stand in the way of sentient AIs or AGI trying to "run" and function well on bio cells, like what makes up humans or animals, for the sake of their computational needs and self-interests.